Mickey's House of Villains

I'll admit, when I heard this was coming out I was pretty excited. Who couldn't be? A feature length film centered around the villains. When I finally saw it there was a mixture of feelings, surprise, excitement and a bit of confusion. While it was still a huge step in the right direction for giving the villains some spotlight, part of me was a bit surprised at how it was done. Though now that I look back, it does make sense.

What follows is a longer than normal episode of House of Mouse. For those not in the now, House of Mouse is a nightclub run by Mickey and the gang where all of the various Disney characters can come and dine while watching cartoon shorts.

Now, House of Mouse may not be the most amazing t.v show put out by Disney I still have to give them a lot of credit for actually dipping into their older shorts from time to time to use in this show. That aside, it's also rather fun getting to see everybody in the same location, Cruella and Hook rubbing shoulders with Maleficent etc.

Back to House of Villains. The choice of shorts is actually pretty fun, though I do have to question what they were thinking adding in a short of Goofy in a yellow leotard. Then again that is pretty scary so it's fitting. Aside from that we also are treated to "Lonesome Ghosts", "Trick or Treat", and "Donald and the Gorilla" for the older Walt made shorts. As well we get a few Mickey Mouseworks notably one where Mickey and Pluto are in a crazy house.

While the shorts themselves are quite entertaining on their own, the plot of Jafar leading the villains to take over is just as much fun. The real showstopper however is when all of the villains join together to sing "It's Our House Now" as they kick out our favorite mouse and all the more friendly characters.

For the villains, we really do get quite the helping of them as pretty much every Animated Classic villains makes an appearance even if for a brief moment, Monstro aside given how he's a whale. What I enjoyed was scanning the crowd to pick out who was present and spotted a few lesser seen characters such as Lucifur and Big Bad Wolf.

If you're a fan of Disney, Villains or Halloween this is definitely for you and worth a look.